2008 Goldman Prize winner Ignace Schops received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hasselt, Belgium, for international achievement for biodiversity and social entrepreneurship featured by cooperation and sustainable development. Ignace had this to say about the honor: “The University of Hasselt gives honorary doctorates to people who achieved something with a broad impact and…
Congratulations to Mill Valley Film Group on winning an Emmy for the series Global Focus VII –The New Environmentalists. MVFG took home the Emmy this past Saturday at the gala award ceremony in San Francisco. The series won for the Public/Current/Community Affairs – Program/Special category. The Global Focus series also won an Emmy in 2008-2009.…
The Green Belt Movement was founded by 1991 Goldman Prize winner Wangari Maathai, who also received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her environmental activism in Kenya. Please join us in congratulating Stephen Mills, formerly the International Programs Director of the Sierra Club, on his new position as the Director of the Green Belt Movement – US Office. Stephen…
How far would you go to protect your home, your livelihood and your community? Robert F Kennedy Jr. joins Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe (2009) in fighting on the front lines against mountaintop removal in Gunnoe’s Appalachian community. Take an in-depth look into her struggle with the powerful new film The Last Mountain. The Last…
Why should you scare wild elephants? In order to save them! Congratulations to Tuy Sereivathana. The 2010 Goldman Prize winner from Cambodia has been awarded the 2011 National Geographic Emerging Explorers Award for his ground-breaking elephant conservation methods. Check out the video below to see how Sereivathana’s work has helped save his country’s elephants.
Goldman Prize winners Hilton Kelley (2011) and Maria Gunnoe (2009) spent Memorial Day weekend at the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Mountainfilm has been “Celebrating the Indomitable Spirit” for 32 years, and is dedicated to shedding light on important issues, cultures, and ideas all over the world. Kelley and Gunnoe were showcased at this year’s…
For more than five years, the people of Rossport in County Mayo, Ireland, have been fighting Shell Oil’s plans to build the Corrib Gas Pipeline directly through their farmland and coastline. This tiny community, whose residents have called it home for generations, has been torn apart through this fight, with some people siding with Shell…
Dmitry Lisitsyn is fighting to protect Sakhalin Island’s critical endangered ecosystems while also demanding safety measures from one of the world’s largest petroleum development projects. Learn more about his work in the Q&A below. Q. What first brought you to Sakhalin Island and what made you stay? A. My wife and I moved to Sakhalin…
Ursula Sladek is bringing decentralized, sustainably-produced energy to more than 100,000 customers all over Germany with her cooperatively-owned power company. Learn more about her innovative approach to energy production and delivery in the Q&A below. Q. You have said that you were first inspired to find an alternative to nuclear power after the Chernobyl disaster.…
Prigi Arisandi is leading efforts to clean up the Surabaya River, a water source for three million people. Learn more about how he’s inspiring young people and taking legal action to stop industrial pollution in the Q&A below. Q. You grew up on the Surabaya River. Do you remember it always being polluted, even when you…